ALBUM CREATING APPARATUS, ALBUM CREATING METHOD AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM

• US 20080089612A1
• Filed: 11/29/2007
• Published: 04/17/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 05/30/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fujifilm Corporation (Fujifilm Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Fujifilm Corporation (Fujifilm Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: ISOMURA, Ayumu
• Granted Patent: US 8,111,948 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 382/295
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 11/60 Editing figures and text; Combining figures or text
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/387 Composing, repositioning or otherwise geometrically modifying originals

Abstract

An album creating apparatus is provided, for creating an album by automatically moving the position of the main object in a page when the main object is overlapped with a fold of the album. The album creating apparatus according to an aspect of the invention includes: an image storage section; an image classification section that classifies a plurality of images into each facing page in an album; an image layout section that lays out the images classified by the image classification section into each facing page in the album; a boundary position storage section that stores the position of the page break of the facing page; a boundary judgment section that judges whether the main object in the image laid out by the image layout section is overlapped with the page break; and a main object moving section that moves the position of the main object such that the main object is not overlapped with the page break.

Claims

1. An album creating apparatus comprising:

an image layout section that lays out a plurality of images into each page of an album;

a boundary position storage section that stores the position of the fold of the page with the fold;

a boundary judgment section that judges whether a main object in the image laid out into the fold page by the image layout section is overlapped with the position of the fold of the page stored in the boundary position storage section; and

a main object moving section that moves the position of the main object in the fold page such that the main object is not overlapped with the fold of the page when the boundary judgment section judges that the main object is overlapped with the fold of the page.

2. The album creating apparatus according to claim 1 further comprising an image classification section that classifies the plurality of images into each facing page being the fold page, wherein

the image layout section lays out the images classified into each facing page by the image classification section into each facing page of the album,

the boundary position storage section stores the position of a page break between a right page and a left page of the facing page,

the boundary judgment section judges whether the main object in the image laid out in the facing page by the image layout section is overlapped with the page break stored in the boundary position storage section, and

the main object moving section moves the position of the main object in the facing page such that the main object is not overlapped with the page break when the boundary judgment section judges that the main object is overlapped with the page break.

3. The album creating apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the image layout section lays out the plurality of images into a cover of the album including an obverse cover, a backbone and a back cover,

the boundary position storage section stores the position of the fold of the cover of the album,

the boundary judgment section judges whether the main object in the image laid out in the cover by the image layout section is overlapped with the position of the fold of the cover stored in the boundary position storage section, and

the main object moving section moves the position of the main object in the cover such that the main object is not overlapped with the position of the fold of the cover when the boundary judgment section judges that the main object is overlapped with the position of the fold of the cover.

4. The album creating apparatus according to claim 1 further comprising a title frame positional information storage section that stores the position of a title frame in which character storing information arranged on the cover of the album including at least one of the obverse cover, the backbone and the back cover is laid out as title frame positional information, wherein

the image layout section lays out the plurality of images into the cover of the album,

the boundary judgment section judges whether the main object in the image laid out in the cover by the image layout section is overlapped with the position of the title frame stored in the title frame positional information storage section, and

the main object moving section moves the position of the main object in the cover such that the main object is not overlapped with the position of the title frame when the boundary judgment section judges that the main object is overlapped with the position of the title frame.

5. The album creating apparatus according to claim 4, wherein

the title frame positional information storage section stores the position of the title frame into which the character string information arranged in the backbone of the album is laid out as title frame positional information,

the image layout section lays out the plurality of images into the backbone of the album,

the boundary judgment section judges whether the main object in the image laid out in the backbone by the image layout section is overlapped with the position of the title frame stored in the title frame positional information storage section, and

the main object moving section moves the position of the object in the backbone such that the main object is not overlapped with the position of the title frame when the boundary judgment section judges that the main object is overlapped with the position of the title frame.

6. The album creating apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the main object moving section moves the main object in the fold page such that the main object is not overlapped with the fold of the page by moving in the fold page the image judged by the boundary judgment section as that the main object is overlapped with the fold of the page.

7. The album creating apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the main object moving section moves the position of the main object in the fold page such that the main object is not overlapped with the fold of the page by moving in the image the main object judged by the boundary judgment section as that the main object is overlapped with the fold of the page.

8. The album creating apparatus according to claim 1 further comprising:

an object extracting section that extracts the object included in the image laid out by the image layout section;

an object type identifying section that identifies the type of object extracted by the object extracting section; and

a main object determining section that determines that the object of which type identified by the object type identifying section is a person is a main object.

9. The album creating apparatus according to claim 1 wherein the main object moving section moves the position of the person in the fold page such that the person'"'"'s face is not overlapped with the fold of the page when the main object judged by the boundary judgment section as that it is overlapped with the fold of the page is a person.

10. An album creating method comprising:

laying out a plurality of images into each page of an album;

referring a boundary position storage section for storing the position of the fold of the page with the fold;

judging whether a main object in the image laid out into the fold page by the image layout section is overlapped with the position of the fold of the page stored in the boundary position referring step; and

moving the position of the main object on the fold page such that the main object is not overlapped with the fold of the page when it is judged that the main object is overlapped with the fold of the page in the boundary judging step.

11. A computer readable medium storing thereon a program executable to implement an album creating apparatus for creating an album, the program operating the album creating apparatus to function as:

an image layout section that lays out a plurality of images into each page of an album;

a boundary position storage section that stories the position of the fold of the page with the fold;

a boundary judgment section that judges whether a main object in the image laid out into the fold page by the image layout section is overlapped with the position of the fold of the page stored in the boundary position storage section; and

a main object moving section that moves the position of the main object in the fold page such that the main object is not overlapped with the fold of the page when the boundary judgment section judges that the main object is overlapped with the fold of the page.

12. An album creating apparatus comprising:

an image layout section that lays out a plurality of images into a template previously generated of an album;

a template image position storage section that stores the position of a template image arranged in the template of the album;

an overlap judgment section that judges whether the main object in the image laid out in the template of the album by the image layout section is overlapped with the position of the template image stored in the template image position storage section; and

a main object moving section that moves the position of the main object in the page of the album such that the main object is not overlapped with the template image when the overlap judgment section judges that the main object is overlapped with the position of the template image.

13. The album creating apparatus according to claim 12, wherein the main object moving section moves the position of the main object in the template image such that the main object is not overlapped with the template image by moving the image judged by the overlap judgment section as that the main object is overlapped with the position of the template image stored in the template image position storage section.

14. The album creating apparatus according to claim 12, wherein the main object moving section moves the position of the main object in the template image such that the main object is not overlapped with the template image by moving the main object judged by the overlap judgment section as that the main image is overlapped with the position of the template image.

15. An album creating method comprising:

laying out a plurality of images into a template previously generated of an album;

referring a template image position storage section for storing the position of a template image arranged in the template of the album;

judging whether the main object in the image laid out in the template of the album in the image laying out step is overlapped with the position of the template image stored in the template image position referring step; and

moving the position of the main object in the page of the album such that the main object is not overlapped with the template image when it is judged that the main object is overlapped with the position of the template image in the overlap judging step.

16. A computer readable medium storing thereon a program executable to implement an album creating apparatus for creating an album, the program operating the album creating apparatus to function as:

an image layout section that lays out a plurality of images into a template previously generated of an album;

a template image position storage section that stores the position of a template image arranged in the template of the album;

an overlap judgment section that judges whether the main object in the image laid out in the template of the album by the image layout section is overlapped with the position of the template image stored in the template image position storage section; and

a main object moving section that moves the position of the main object in the page of the album such that the main object is not overlapped with the template image when the overlap judgment section judges that the main object is overlapped with the position of the template image.

17. An album creating apparatus for creating an album by laying out an image into an album template having a page template including a layout frame which is previously arranged to fit the image therein, comprising:

a fold position storage section that stores the position of a fold included in a page template in a layout frame previously arranged in the page template of a page with the fold;

a main object region judgment section that judges a region for a main object in the image;

an image comparison section that compares, for each image, the position of the fold in the layout frame stored in the fold position storage section with the region for the main object in the image judged by the object region judgment section and judges whether the fold of the page template is overlapped with the main object in the image;

an image selecting section that selects an image in which the fold of the page template is not overlapped with the main object of the image based on the judged result of the image comparison section when the image is arranged in the layout frame; and

an image layout section that lays out the image selected by the image selecting section into the layout frame.

18. An album creating method for creating an album by laying out an image into an album template having a page template including a layout frame which is previously arranged to fit the image therein, comprising:

referring a fold position storage section for storing the position of a fold included in a page template in a layout frame previously arranged in the page template of a page with the fold;

judging a region for a main object in the image;

comparing, for each image, the position of the fold in a layout frame stored in the fold position referring step with a region for the main object in the image judged in the object region judging step and judges whether the fold of the page template is overlapped with the main object of the image;

selecting an image in which the fold of the page template with the main object of the image based on the judged result in the image comparing step when the image is arranged in the layout frame; and

laying out the image selected in the image selecting step into the layout frame.

19. A computer readable medium storing thereon a program executable to implement an album creating apparatus for creating an album by laying out an image into an album template having a page template including a layout frame which is previously arranged to fit the image therein, the program operating the album creating apparatus to function as:

a fold position storage section that stores the position of a fold included in a page template in a layout frame previously arranged in the page template of a page with the fold;

a main object region judgment section that judges a region for a main object in the image;

an image comparison section that compares, for each image, the position of the fold in the layout frame stored in the fold position storage section with the region for the main object in the image judged by the object region judgment section and judges whether the fold of the page template is overlapped with the main object in the image;

an image selecting section that selects an image in which the fold of the page template is not overlapped with the main object of the image based on the judged result of the image comparison section when the image is arranged in the layout frame; and

an image layout section that lays out the image selected by the image selecting section into the layout frame.

20. An album creating apparatus for creating an album by laying out an image into an album template having a page template including a layout frame which is previously arranged to fit the image therein, comprising:

a template image position storage section that stores the position of a template image included in a page template in a layout frame previously arranged in a page template of a page including a template image;

a main object region judgment section that judges the region for a main object in an image;

an image comparison section that compares, for each image, the position of the template image in the layout frame stored in the template image position storage section with a region for the main object in the image judged by the main object region judgment section and judges whether the template image of the page template is overlapped with the main object in the image when the image is laid out in the layout frame;

an image selecting section that selects a image in which the template image of the page template is not overlapped with the main object in the image when the image is laid out into the layout frame; and

an image layout section that lays out the image selected by the image selecting section into the image layout frame.

21. An album creating method for creating an album by laying out an image into an album template having a page template including a layout frame which is previously arranged to fit the image therein, comprising:

referring a template image position storage section for storing the position of a template image included in a page template in a layout frame previously arranged in a page template of a page including a template image;

judging the region for the main object in an image;

comparing, for each image, the position of the template image in the layout frame referred in the template image position referring step with the region for the main object in the image judged in the main object region judging step and judges whether the template image of the page template is overlapped with the main object in the image when the image is laid out in the layout frame;

selecting an image in which the template image of the page template is not overlapped with the main object in the mage based on the judged result in the image comparing step when the image is laid out into the layout frame; and

laying out the image selected in the image selecting step into the image layout frame.

22. A computer readable medium storing thereon a program executable to implement an album creating apparatus for creating an album by laying out an image into an album template having a page template including a layout frame which is previously arranged to fit the image therein, the program operating the album creating apparatus to function as:

a template image position storage section that stores the position of a template image included in a page template in a layout frame previously arranged in a page template of a page including a template image;

a main object region judgment section that judges the region for a main object in an image;

an image comparison section that compares, for each image, the position of the template image in the layout frame stored in the template image position storage section with a region for the main object in the image judged by the main object region judgment section and judges whether the template image of the page template is overlapped with the main object in the image when the image is laid out in the layout frame;

an image selecting section that selects a image in which the template image of the page template is not overlapped with the main object in the image when the image is laid out into the layout frame; and

an image layout section that lays out the image selected by the image selecting section into the image layout frame.